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• Williams stunned in US Open semis by Vinci, Slam bid ends

  11-09-2015 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — For Serena Williams' first 26 matches at major tournaments in 2015, no deficit was too daunting, no opponent too troublesome, no victory too far from reach.
  
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• Cornell taps former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates to lead investigation

  06-10-2026 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of people gathered at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday in support of "Jane Doe," the former student who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a fraternity in October 2024.The "Justice for Survivors" rally was organized by over 20 student organizations who led a late afternoon march to Day Hall, which houses the university's administrative offices and had been vandalized by activists overnight.  Students, faculty, and residents from across the state
  
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• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declares state of emergency over spike in measles cases

  06-10-2026 20:57 via abcnews.com
  
  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state disaster emergency on Monday as neighboring Pennsylvania battles its largest measles outbreak in three decades.As of Oct. 3, New York has recorded 108 measles cases so far this year, 92 of those since mid-July across 18 rural counties where communities are under-immunized, according to Hochul's order."After reviewing the latest data on measles cases in New York State, I am declaring a state disaster emergency to strengthen our ongoing efforts to confro
  
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• Trump won't reimburse taxpayers for TV ads after changing how they're funded

  06-10-2026 20:26 via abcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Monday night that he will no longer use taxpayer funds to pay for a multimillion-dollar pro-Trump ad blitz ahead of the midterm elections, saying his super PAC will now pay for them. But he appears to have no plans to reimburse the federal government for funds already used on the ads, a White House official said Tuesday.“The President’s [social media post] was not referring to reimbursement," the official told ABC News.While Trump dismissed criticism
  
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• Gatorade recalls 122,000 cases over undeclared food dyes. Check these flavors.

  06-10-2026 19:38 via yahoo.com
  More than 122,000 cases of Gatorade have been voluntarily recalled because they may contain undeclared food dyes, according to a Food and Drug Administration alert.The recall affects 28-ounce bottles of four flavors of yellow and orange Gatorade sold in 37 states. They may be colored with synthetic food dyes, Yellow No. 6 and Yellow No. 5, or both, but the labels of the recalled products didn't properly disclose those ingredients. While both dyes are legal for companies to use in food and b
  
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• Fake Jane Does are flooding the internet to protect the plaintiff in Cornell rape case

  06-10-2026 19:36 via yahoo.com
  Supporters have launched an online campaign in recent weeks aimed at protecting the identity of a woman, identified as "Jane Doe," who alleges in a civil lawsuit that she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a Cornell University fraternity in 2024.Jane Doe's lawyer says that the ex-Cornell student has received "multiple threats" in recent days aimed at exposing her real identity. "There are people out there trying to track her down," Thomas Giuffra, who ‌represents Jane Doe, to
  
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• Cornell police got tip that Chi Phi leaders sought silence after reported rape claim

  06-10-2026 19:11 via abcnews.com
  
  One day after a campus-wide alert notified students about a reported rape at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024, the school's police department received a tip from an anonymous caller saying that the Chi Phi's fraternity's leadership asked a potential witness to stay quiet because "the reputation of all involved and the frat would be ruined" if details of the incident spread across campus, according to the school records reviewed by ABC News.Videos first obtained by ABC News showed that Cor
  
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• Olympian accused of damaging Reflecting Pool seeks probe of potential misconduct

  06-10-2026 18:00 via cbsnews.com
  
  Attorneys for Olympic canoeist David Hearn asked the internal watchdogs at the Justice and Interior departments on Tuesday to investigate the circumstances surrounding his arrest, indictment and the dismissal of the case, according to a letter seen by CBS News.Hearn's case garnered national attention, after he was falsely accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and subsequently indicted on a charge of felony destruction of government property.Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney
  
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• Trump won't reimburse government for his TV ads that already aired

  06-10-2026 17:59 via huffpost.com
  
  Like this article? Keep independent journalism alive. Support HuffPost.Donald Trump won’t reimburse the U.S. government for the TV ads glorifying the president, the White House said Tuesday. In response to bipartisan backlash against the ads, Trump said Monday on Truth Social he would direct a super PAC to pay for the spots going forward. The White House said Tuesday there would be no payback for the ads already aired.“The President’s Truth was not referring to reimburseme
  
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• Trump allies push to sideline AI safety advocates as fight over oversight grows

  06-10-2026 16:37 via yahoo.com
  BERKELEY, Calif. - After artificial intelligence safety advocates captured Washington's attention with dire warnings about the technology's power, the Trump administration and its allies embraced some of their suggestions, while moving to sideline the advocates themselves.Battle lines have been drawn in recent days over part of an accord signed by President Donald Trump and AI chief executives last week: Who should audit AI companies' systems to ensure their technology behaves as intended.Subscr
  
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• Protests erupt on Cornell campus as students rally in support of 'Jane Doe'

  06-10-2026 16:36 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of people gathered at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., on Monday in support of "Jane Doe," the former student who alleges she was drugged and raped by multiple members of a fraternity in October 2024.The “Justice for Survivors” rally was organized by over 20 student organizations who led a late afternoon march to Day Hall, which houses the university’s administrative offices and had been vandalized by activists overnight.  Students, faculty, and residents from
  
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• S&P 500 hits record high as Nvidia nears $6 trillion milestone

  06-10-2026 16:22 via nbcnews.com
  Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading last month in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty)The S&P 500 on Tuesday hit a record, as the index rose for a fourth straight day, supported by rising technology stocks, hopes for a positive earnings season, and a pause in oil’s recent surge.The broad-based closed higher by 0.58%, its first record closing high since Aug. 13. The Nasdaq Composite also jumped 0.45%. It also hit a record high for the
  
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• Cornell protesters swarm campus to support Jane Doe, call for university president's resignation

  06-10-2026 15:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Faculty at Cornell University are weighing a vote of no confidence in the school's administration as student protesters take over the campus in response to sexual assault allegations on Tuesday.The no confidence resolution has secured support from 40 of the faculty senate's 75 voting members, according to the resolution's sponsor, Prof. Paul Ortiz."As you may suspect, we were approached in our capacity as faculty senators by numerous Cornell colleagues demanding action. Many of these faculty &nd
  
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• Surge in imports pushed U.S. trade deficit above $100 billion in August

  06-10-2026 15:40 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  The US trade deficit jumped to more than $100 billion in August as importers wrestled with a new round of President Trump's tariffs and continued to bring in billions of dollars' worth of components for AI data centers.The total gap: $105.6 billion, a 13.8% increase from July's revised $92.8 billion deficit, the highest level since early 2025, when importers stocked up ahead of Trump's "Liberation Day" and a later four-month surge in imports that pushed average monthly trade deficits north of $1
  
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• NYT columnist thrashed online for suggesting Trump is to blame for alleged Cornell gang rape

  06-10-2026 15:17 via foxnews.com
  
  The New York Times is under fire after one of its columnists suggested that President Donald Trump is responsible for creating the culture that led to an alleged sexual assault against a woman at Cornell University by seven men."What this is, is it's a fundamental disrespect for women," columnist Michelle Cottle said on ABC News on Sunday. "You can't send those messages no matter how drunk you are as a frat boy without having some kind of misunderstanding about what women are there for and wheth
  
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• WWE star Stephanie Vaquer recreates Becky Lynch's risqué championship snap ahead of Money in the Bank

  06-10-2026 15:11 via foxnews.com
  
  It wasn’t that long ago when WWE star Becky Lynch and her husband Seth Rollins set the internet on fire when a photo appeared of them posing nude with only their championship belts.To say social media got hot and bothered would be the understatement of the year. The picture was taken after WrestleMania 35 and appeared in Lynch’s 2024 memoir, "Becky Lynch: The Man—Not Your Average Average Girl."CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK PRO WRESTLING COVERAGEThe snap appeared to be captured in
  
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• Paramount-Warner Bros. finally merger closes, creating media giant Skydance

  06-10-2026 15:03 via finance.yahoo.com
  
  The $110 billion merger of Paramount Skydance (PSKY) and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) closed on Tuesday after Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied a last-minute effort to halt the deal.The new company — known as Skydance (SKYD)— brings the HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services under one umbrella, roughly seven months after Paramount won a long bidding war for Warner Bros. over Netflix (NFLX). The merger had faced plenty of pushback and a long road to closing. "The completed t
  
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• Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding

  06-10-2026 15:00 via yahoo.com
  Communities with high birth and marriage rates could soon gain an advantage in securing federal transit money — a long-sought goal of the Trump administration but one that a top Democratic appropriator calls "bizarre and dystopian."The Federal Transit Administration wants to revamp a multibillion-dollar program that helps state and local authorities fund infrastructure projects such as rail improvements and new bus lanes. Public feedback on the administration's plan, which was rolled out O
  
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• Millions saved by blocking dead people payouts as Trump Treasury drops hammer on federal fraud

  06-10-2026 15:00 via foxnews.com
  
  FIRST ON FOX: The Treasury Department blocked $175 million in federal payments tied to deceased recipients in fiscal year 2026, up sharply from the $99 million identified just months earlier as the Trump administration expanded government-wide screening for improper payments."I applaud Secretary [Scott] Bessent for slamming the door on these fraudsters before they can pick taxpayers’ pockets," Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy told Fox News Digital."Unless you were playing Frisbee in
  
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• Fox News Power Rankings: The biggest surprises come after October

  06-10-2026 15:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Four weeks out from the election, and for most Americans, it’s time for football, foliage, and flannel. For politics watchers, all eyes are on an October surprise.They’ve been game-changers before. In 2008, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which ushered in the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, was a turning point in John McCain’s presidential campaign. He was even with Barack Obama when the news broke, then trailed in every survey since. He lost the popular v
  
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• China’s long-term finances are all wet as bill to maintain huge navy comes due in 2031

  06-10-2026 15:00 via foxnews.com
  
  China’s recent state visit bought two months of trade peace. But it did not buy Beijing time on the fleet it has already launched and will soon be unable to afford.Chinese President Xi Jinping walked a red carpet in Washington for his first state visit to the United States in more than a decade. President Donald Trump greeted him at Joint Base Andrews. There were troop reviews, a state dinner, pandas, an artificial intelligence (AI) "dialogue" and a two-month extension of a trade truce now
  
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• Raiders fan takes shot at Taylor Swift's looks with sign at Chiefs game, shredded NFL refs & parents gone wild

  06-10-2026 14:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Welcome to Screencaps, "America's Best Daily Column," as named by the readers. Screencaps, which publishes seven-days-a-week, is a mix of sports, pop culture, and emails from sane readers from around the world. This column isn't for the coastal elites. Give us a week to steal your heart. Our track record is pretty good. Let's have some fun.Let's start this Tuesday morning at the University of Arizona where parents weekend is in the books and let's just say the moms and dads went hard this year.
  
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• How Americans helped create the Chinese car tech capable of 'spying'

  06-10-2026 14:52 via foxnews.com
  
  FIRST ON FOX: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison overlapped on work with China's powerful police ministry developing vehicle technology capable of tracking cars and overtaking driving functions, according to findings from a report shared exclusively with Fox News Digital ahead of its release.Beijing has already begun deploying the systems across China.The technology, known as "vehicle-road-cloud" integration, links cars with roadside cameras and sensors and centralized cloud plat
  
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• Trump allows tax-free red diesel on U.S. highways as fuel prices soar for truckers

  06-10-2026 14:43 via qz.com
  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday evening temporarily allowing the use of red-dyed diesel on public roads and deferring the federal excise tax on that fuel through the end of the year, a move aimed at lowering costs for truckers and farmers facing record-high diesel prices.Red-dyed diesel is chemically the same product as standard highway diesel, but carries a red dye to mark it as off-road fuel — meaning it is not subject to the 24.4-cent-per-gallon federal excise ta
  
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• James Carville warns Dems against impeaching Trump if they win control in midterms

  06-10-2026 14:43 via foxnews.com
  
  Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville urged Democrats to avoid pursuing a third impeachment of President Donald Trump if the party wins control of the House of Representatives in November, arguing it would be "highly unlikely" to succeed.On the "Politics War Room" podcast on Thursday, Carville and his co-host Al Hunt argued that impeachment would be a waste of time and Democrats should devote their energy to investigating the president instead."I’ll tell you one thing that I think D
  
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• Atlanta robbery suspect allegedly steals police cruiser, crashes into tanker truck

  06-10-2026 14:41 via foxnews.com
  
  A man wanted in connection with the violent robbery of a woman near an Atlanta transit station was arrested Monday after allegedly stealing a marked police cruiser and crashing it into a tanker truck, authorities said.Atlanta police identified the suspect as 30-year-old Phelan Thorpe, who investigators say was wanted in connection with a Saturday afternoon robbery near the Midtown MARTA station.Thorpe was charged with robbery and simple battery in connection with the alleged attack, according to
  
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• U.K. police make 7th arrest over suspected plot targeting U.S. air base

  06-10-2026 14:25 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — British police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old man in London on suspicion of a terror offense over a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that authorities have linked to Iran.The arrest is the seventh in connection with a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, located 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of London, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran during this year's war.Five British men in their 20s were detained near the perimeter of
  
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• Washington officials won't budge on trans athlete policy after girl files SCOTUS appeal for alleged assault

  06-10-2026 14:22 via foxnews.com
  
  Washington’s high school athletics association and the state superintendent say they will keep letting students compete by gender identity while a Supreme Court application over girls’ wrestling is pending.The Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) and Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) responded after K.M.K. and her mother, Stephanie Lynne Brown, asked Justice Elena Kagan for an injunction pending appeal. The plaintiff is Kallie Keeler
  
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• Jim Bakker, 'PTL Club' televangelist and fmr husband of Tammy Faye, dead at 86

  06-10-2026 14:11 via foxnews.com
  
  Televangelist Jim Bakker, who rose to fame with the "The PTL Club" TV show before admitting to a sexual encounter with a church clerk and being convicted of financial crimes, has died at the age of 86.Bakker's second wife, Lori, said Jim passed away on Monday. His cause of death is unclear, and it comes after Bakker suffered a stroke in 2020."It is with a broken heart that I share that my beloved husband, Jim Bakker, went home to be with the Lord this evening," Lori Bakker said in a statement. "
  
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• Man triggers relationship crisis by grabbing first class, leaving woman behind in coach

  06-10-2026 14:00 via foxnews.com
  
  A woman's uncomfortable travel experience with a now-ex-boyfriend is fueling a heated debate about airplane etiquette and expectations between couples as a psychotherapist pointed out the larger issues involved.In a recent TikTok video, the woman said she and her then-boyfriend were flying to visit his family when he received a seat upgrade — leaving her stuck back in the economy section.The woman said she did not have airline status, while her boyfriend frequently traveled for work and re
  
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